Present Tense Quotes
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Present Tense Quotes & Sayings
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Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.
— Joe Bradley
We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
— Pete Hamill
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
— Douglas Coupland
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
— Diane Sawyer
Eternal life truly begins the moment you're born again. It's a present tense - not future tense - reality. If you're a believer, eternal life is now!
— Andrew Wommack
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
— Colin Quinn
The present tense made him nervous.
— William Gibson
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
— Dennis Crowley
I love you present tense.
— John Green
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.
— Joseph Boyden
Quoting God's Word in the present tense infuses our hearts with holy restraint and diffuses our reactions so we don't spew.
— Lysa TerKeurst
A man's conscience shouts so much more loudly in the past tense than it ever manages to achieve in the present.
— Jasper Kent
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.
— David Foster Wallace
Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.
— Marlon James
I love you present tense. It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me? Okay, okay.
— John Green
Politics is history in the present tense.
— John Avlon
The present tense of regret is indecision.
— Cecil Baldwin
I loved her present tense.
— John Green
Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were
— Mark Batterson
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
— Deborah Levy
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.
— Stephen Covey
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.
— Guillermo Del Toro
(by the way ... I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it ... ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in.)
— Charles Bukowski
My last defense / Is the present tense.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
The phrase "I have children" is always present tense. They are always with me. Even when I am by myself, I "have children.
— Jim Gaffigan
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
— V.S. Pritchett
A money-lenderhe serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future. — Joseph Addison
Confidence is the present tense of hope.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
— Brian Tracy
Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
— Catherynne M Valente
In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean?
— Roland Barthes
You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.
— Brandon Sanderson
Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.
— Andrew Shaffer
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.
— Craig Raine
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
— Mark Steyn
Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon
Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present tense, everyone captured in a moment that will never come again.
— Natasha Solomons
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
— William DeWitt Hyde
